Singapore’s beloved problem-solving aphrodisiac, which can generate and induce mathematical desire in oft-unmotivated or math-anxious students, teachers, and parents—a brain-friendly means to instilling motivation and passion in them to becoming a confident problem solver.
Thanks to the bar model method, millions of homeschoolers outside the “fine” city with the death penalty could testify to the aha! moments they’d experienced time and time again, compared to their peers who’re too shy to experiment with the visualization strategy.
by Numerati August 4, 2023
Singapore’s beloved or narcotized visualization problem-solving strategy that allows word problems set in upper grades to be solved without algebra in lower grades, by using part-whole or comparison models in the form of bars or rectangles.
The bar model method is so addictive that an unhealthy number of Singapore math students in middle school, who are expected to use algebra to solve challenging math questions, couldn’t be weaned from it.
by MathPlus November 26, 2020
A problem-solving visualization heuristic that is the heart of the Singapore math curriculum, whose copyright is being contested by both China and Russia (or even Japan), because they claimed that the “look-see” methodology used to solve challenging word problems in elementary grades originated from them.
In the aftermath of the Singapore’s claim that they and the Canadian songwriter Hugh Harrison own the copyright to the “Count on Me, Singapore” song rather than the Indian composer Joseph Mendoza, China and Russia now want Singapore to compensate them for “plagiarizing” the bar model method for over three decades—unprovenly, it’s their tit-for-tat message to high-GDP Singapore for not approving their home-made, half-baked vaccines.
by MathPlus March 20, 2021